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March 2nd, 2010 at 05:28pm
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The official TCG blog recently published an extensive list of many of the available self-encrypting drives that follow the TCG’s Opal standard. As I’ve said a number of times before, self-encrypting drives is a no-brainer option, so with a list of four drive manufacturers and four vendors of management software there’s lots to choose from.
Continue Reading Looking for a self-encrypting drive?
Tags: opal
By Ken Y-N
February 13th, 2010 at 04:02pm
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Softex recently posted a press release about an upgrade to their software to handle self-encrypting drives and Intel’s new vPro technology. The self-encrypting drive standard supported is the Trusted Computing Group’s OPAL standard, and the Intel vPro stuff supports secure remote management of PCs, their self-encrypting drives, the Trusted Platform Module configuration, and many other [...]
Continue Reading Softex announces new software for managing self-encrypting drives and Intel’s vPro
Tags: intel, softex, vpro
By Ken Y-N
November 25th, 2009 at 04:02pm
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On the Zecurion blog, they looked at the recently-release Trusted Computing Group’s Opal specification for full disk encryption and came to the conclusion that if you’ve already got lots of hardware, replacing everything does not make financial sense, but instead a software solution like Zecurion’s own Zserver Storage should be used.
Continue Reading TCG self-encrypting drives not always a good idea
Tags: zserver
By Ken Y-N
September 26th, 2009 at 01:59pm
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According to this press release, Wave Systems will be demonstrating in conjunction with Dell and Lenovo at the Intel Developers Forum the use of Wave’s EMBASSY administration suite to remotely control self-encrypting drives on vPro-equipped hardware.
Some of the things the EMBASSY Remote Administration Server can do are: network unlock of drives; tie particular PCs to [...]
Continue Reading Wave Systems, Intel vPro, and self encrypting drive backup
Tags: embassy, intel, vpro, wave
By Ken Y-N
September 1st, 2009 at 03:33am
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Hitachi recently published a press release describing their new Ultra Fast Half Terabyte Mobile Hard Disk Drive.
The specs for the Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 are 7200 RPM, 2.5-inch, 3Gb/s SATA interface, 0.69 watts power consumption at rest and 1.8 watts on read/write, 56% larger and 16% faster than its predecessor, and with hardware-based full disk encryption [...]
Continue Reading Hitachi’s new 500 Gb mobile hard disk with Opal protection
Tags: hitachi, opal, travelstar 7k500
By Ken Y-N
May 7th, 2009 at 02:37pm
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In an online republishing of a full article from SCMagazine UK entitled Built-in encryption is the future of storage, Jessica Twentyman argues that industry must, and will be forced by legislation, to adopt full disk encryption as the best line of defense for data at rest.
The best option is built-in low-level encryption such as that [...]
Continue Reading Full disk encryption is the future
Tags: scmagazine
By Ken Y-N
April 14th, 2009 at 02:25pm
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Engadget recently republished a press release from Samsung on full disk encryption for solid state drives.
Samsung will soon be shipping self-encrypting Flash memory-based solid state drives, in sizes of 256GB, 128GB, and 64GB, but with no pricing information. They will come with Wave System’s EMBASSY management software suite to allow secure backup and restore, and [...]
Continue Reading Self-encrypting solid state drives from Samsung
Tags: embassy, engadget, samsung, wave
By Ken Y-N
March 23rd, 2009 at 02:42pm
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According to the ITExaminer, there has been a release of a cross-platform, full-disk encryption utility by Winmagic.
The bit of interest for me is that:
The utility also supports a number of hardware-encrypted disk drives, including those designed using TCG’s (Trusted Computing Group) ‘Opal’ specification.
As I’ve said many times before, the TPM-based low-level full disk encryption really [...]
Continue Reading Winmagic releases cross-platform encryption utility
Tags: full disk encryption, itexaminer, winmagic
By Ken Y-N
February 9th, 2009 at 03:22pm
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In a look at the latests TCG Secure Storage specifications, Computerworld reports that experts predict all drives will be self-encrypting in five years.
I think that full disk encryption is the TCG standard that is most immediately relevant to the average end-user, so such moves would be more than welcome by me.
Continue Reading Computerworld predicts all hard drives self-encrypting in five years
Tags: computerworld, full disk encryption
By Ken Y-N
February 8th, 2009 at 03:21pm
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TechRepublic’s Servers and Storage blog posted about server-side full disk encryption based upon the TCG standards.
The full article is a good summary of the four standards released to cover the data centre, local hard drives, interface standards, and optical disks. The conclusion is:
I believe it’s a matter of time before governments pass laws related [...]
Continue Reading Full disk encryption for servers
Tags: full disk encryption, techrepublic
By Ken Y-N
